# [git-p4] Can't submit: Something I do in a wrong way.

2 messages from 2008-11-19 to 2008-11-19. Participants: Evgeniy Ivanov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16401

## Evgeniy Ivanov, 2008-11-19 21:00

Subject: [git-p4] Can't submit: Something I do in a wrong way.
Message-ID: <49247E5D.7070601@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49247E5D.7070601%40gmail.com

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Hi list,
I need a help with git-p4.

There are //1, //2, //3 in perforce's depot, and /dir1 is a client's root.
So:
Root:   /dir1/
//1/... //client/1... etc
I've checkouted //1, //2 and //3.

In /git I did "git clone //1; git clone //2", So I have /git/1, /git/2.
Now I run in /git/1 "git-p4 submit commitBr" and choose 'y' to sync,
where comitBr has one more commit than master.
I get "Path /git/1/... is not under client's root /dir1/". Without
syncing it says I have opened files, but when I do in /dir1/1 "p4 -a
revert" I get: "file(s) not opened on this client".
Looks like "git-p4 rebase" works fine.

Also I tried to keep git in the same dir as perforce workspace: I did 1
commit and then failed to do anything, because got strange conflicts.


P.S. Please don't forget to keep me in CC :)


-- 
Cheers, Evgeniy.
Key fingerprint: F316 B5A1 F6D2 054F CD18 B74A 9540 0ABB 1FE5 67A3

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## Evgeniy Ivanov, 2008-11-19 22:16

Subject: Re: [git-p4] Can't submit: Something I do in a wrong way.
Message-ID: <49249048.5030504@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49249048.5030504%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <49247E5D.7070601@gmail.com>

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Retried and noticed that if I do:
/dir1/1> git-p4 submit --git-dir=../../git/1/ --origin=master
Then everything works fine. Strange, but docs say:
"This requires a Perforce checkout separate to your git
repository. To submit all changes that are in the current git branch but
not in
the "p4" branch (or "origin" if "p4" doesn't exist) simply call

    git-p4 submit

in your git repository."
And my approach is a bit vice versa.
Any suggestions? I can go with it, but I want almost forget about thing
that I have perforce :)


Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> Hi list,
> I need a help with git-p4.
> 
> There are //1, //2, //3 in perforce's depot, and /dir1 is a client's root.
> So:
> Root:   /dir1/
> //1/... //client/1... etc
> I've checkouted //1, //2 and //3.
> 
> In /git I did "git clone //1; git clone //2", So I have /git/1, /git/2.
> Now I run in /git/1 "git-p4 submit commitBr" and choose 'y' to sync,
> where comitBr has one more commit than master.
> I get "Path /git/1/... is not under client's root /dir1/". Without
> syncing it says I have opened files, but when I do in /dir1/1 "p4 -a
> revert" I get: "file(s) not opened on this client".
> Looks like "git-p4 rebase" works fine.
> 
> Also I tried to keep git in the same dir as perforce workspace: I did 1
> commit and then failed to do anything, because got strange conflicts.
> 
> 
> P.S. Please don't forget to keep me in CC :)
> 
> 


-- 
Cheers, Evgeniy.
Key fingerprint: F316 B5A1 F6D2 054F CD18 B74A 9540 0ABB 1FE5 67A3

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